Re: MD MOQ and The Problem Of Evil

From: hampday@earthlink.net
Date: Tue Aug 17 2004 - 22:56:31 BST

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    From: "David Morey" <us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk>
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    Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 1:56 PM
    Subject: Re: MD MOQ and The Problem Of Evil

    > Hi Ham
    >
    > Happy to say that god is the ultimate category
    > of the possible. But why is either absolute' or 'essence'
    > good words for this? 'Absolute' is OKish but is
    > tainted with connections to the idea of a god of
    > law, 'essence' seems/sounds too much like
    > something you get when you have boiled something
    > down to a reduction.
    >
    > regards
    > David M

    Unlike some authors and their interpreters who use words as they see fit
    rather than as commonly defined in a dictionary, I prefer to start, at least
    with common usage, improvising as necessary only to
    better express a thought or concept which "may not be so common". Absolute
    is such an example. Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary cites as its first
    definition for absolute: "a. free from imperfection"; b.. "pure". (Only
    the second definition refers to "...characteristic of a ruler completely
    free from constitutional or other restraint. And even this is not far off
    the mark for my Absolute.) Need I say more?

    As for Essence, your "home brew" analogy expresses exactly what I did to
    arrive at Essence -- i.e., boil down the complexity of reality in order to
    reduce it to its essence. I hope you can do the same. Thanks for your
    support, David.

    Essentially yours,
    Ham

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